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- Title
Suppression of the antiviral response by an influenza histone mimic.
- Authors
Marazzi, Ivan; Ho, Jessica S Y; Kim, Jaehoon; Manicassamy, Balaji; Dewell, Scott; Albrecht, Randy A; Seibert, Chris W; Schaefer, Uwe; Jeffrey, Kate L; Prinjha, Rab K; Lee, Kevin; García-Sastre, Adolfo; Roeder, Robert G; Tarakhovsky, Alexander
- Abstract
Viral infection is commonly associated with virus-driven hijacking of host proteins. Here we describe a novel mechanism by which influenza virus affects host cells through the interaction of influenza non-structural protein 1 (NS1) with the infected cell epigenome. We show that the NS1 protein of influenza A H3N2 subtype possesses a histone-like sequence (histone mimic) that is used by the virus to target the human PAF1 transcription elongation complex (hPAF1C). We demonstrate that binding of NS1 to hPAF1C depends on the NS1 histone mimic and results in suppression of hPAF1C-mediated transcriptional elongation. Furthermore, human PAF1 has a crucial role in the antiviral response. Loss of hPAF1C binding by NS1 attenuates influenza infection, whereas hPAF1C deficiency reduces antiviral gene expression and renders cells more susceptible to viruses. We propose that the histone mimic in NS1 enables the influenza virus to affect inducible gene expression selectively, thus contributing to suppression of the antiviral response.
- Publication
Nature, 2012, Vol 483, Issue 7390, p428
- ISSN
1476-4687
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nature10892